Grew up in Kansas, and left as soon as was polite for schooling in LA. Thought I wanted to be a scientist. Huh.

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Learned K-S in college and played a bit at the old Wild Whist in Westwood. Then I moved to Steamboat Springs, Colorado, in 1978 and took the next 30 years off (with only sporadic club experience in the Denver area). Started playing regularly again in Boulder, Colorado, and played my first sectional and regional tournaments. Learned to love Bracket 2/3 KOs. Favorite tournament: Palm Springs. Much prefer 10 & 3 schedules. Worst bridge characteristic:Black Hole Moments when I leave the planet and do really stupid stuff, usually when declaring.

The result was 5♣ making. (No comment.) Club game; A players real As, B players solid, C players all over the place. EW are one of the consistently best matchpoint pairs in the Unit. They will win their direction 60% of club games, and will scratch high in sectional and regional pairs, with a good share of sectional firsts.

E took a lonnnnng time to pass over 4♥. May W take a call?

This hand is one of the rare occasions upon which I have polled in a club game, because I have a great deal of sympathy with a positive action by W. But I consistently harp on hesitations, and I tend to bias hesitation rulings in favor of the non-offenders.

I polled five A players in this game: The most senior voted to allow action ("I'm not letting them play 4♥."); the second would have doubled, but said he wouldn't go against a director's ruling which ever way it went; two voted no action allowed; one adamantly refused to take a position. ( Wimp.)

(For purposes of this poll, I will assume that bidding 4♠ and doubling are equivalent--please let me know if you think I am wrong.)

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